Max McCusker set a new Irish senior record and championship record in the 100 butterfly at the 2024 Irish Open and Olympic trials.
McCusker's time of 52.62 broke his own record of 52.31 which he set at the 2024 World Championships in Doha. He will be hoping to go faster this evening and aiming for the Olympic qualification time of 51.67.
Swimming next to McCusker in the 100m butterfly, Evan Bailey set a new Irish junior record, his second in as many days. Bailey lowered his own junior record of 54.22 set in 2023 to 53.47.
The opening event of the day saw Darragh Greene set a new championship record of 59.91 in the 100m breaststroke. Greene will need a 59.49 second swim this afternoon or tomorrow to achieve the Olympic qualification time.
In the 50m freestyle heats, Tom Fannon came agonisingly close to the Olympic time of 21.96. The National Centre Dublin swimmer stopped the clock in 22.02 and needs to find just six hundredths of a second to secure the qualifying time in the A Final.
McCusker, Bailey, Greene and Fannon all secured consideration times for the European Aquatics Championships in Serbia in June.
Danielle Hill, who achieved the Olympic time in the 100m backstroke on Wednesday, was back in the pool this morning for the heats of the 100m freestyle. Hill was the fastest qualifier into this afternoon’s 'A Final’ in 55.87. Right behind Hill, touching in 55.88, 16-year-old Grace Davison set a new Irish junior record of 55.88. The Ards swimmer broke her own record of 56.01 set earlier this month.
Niamh Coyne progresses as the fastest swimmer in the 100m breaststroke after she was the only swimmer under the seventy second mark in the 100m breaststroke heats clocking a time of 1:08.99.
Also, in action this evening, Daniel and Nathan Wiffen return for the 800m final, where Nathan will be looking for the qualifying time of 7:51.65 and Conor Ferguson has another opportunity at an Olympics spot in the 100m backstroke.
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